
A little while ago, I wrote about how there had only been small victories on my writing journey.
I’ve just received news that in the overall scheme of things, isn’t a big victory, but to my geeky little writer’s heart, feels HUGE.
The Pontianak’s Doll, a short horror story based on a Malaysian myth has been accepted by Knightwatch Press, a British publisher, for their Playrooms anthology. The anthology will be released and launched in October 2015 at Fantasycon.
This news was exciting enough in itself, but then I found out that John Connolly is going to be a guest presenter at Fantasycon. John Connolly is one of my favourite authors, not because of his more well-known crime series, but for his brooding and brilliant short fiction.
I had the privilege of meeting John Connolly at Genrecon in 2013 where he signed my well-loved copy of Nocturnes and I conducted myself with considerably more poise than when I met Hugh Howey. John Connolly won’t be launching Playrooms (as far as I know), but just to have my story appear in the same convention as Mr Connolly will be a delight.